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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I was in New York at the United Nations General Assembly where I was asked to present the Irish Government's position in an initiative we are taking with Arab and other European states to advance the two-state solution. At the sidelines of that meeting, I had the great privilege of meeting the Prime Minister of Palestine. He could not have been more supportive of what the Irish Government...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: -----better searches, better sampling and better sanctions. That will not be delivered in the lifetime of this Government but absolutely, it is my intention to go back to my Government colleagues when I have the information provided by the analysis being done by the Department to report on this issue, and also-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: In the coming weeks. At the same time, I will indicate what progress my Department, which has been working on this for some six months now, is making on the complex issues of how we improve our legal powers in this area, which we need to do. That does take a certain amount of time because we need to get it right. In the interim, we will do everything we can. I have already put out a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I accept what the Deputy is saying. I happen to be meeting with Bus Éireann in the coming days and I will raise directly with its representatives this issue the Deputy has raised. I will make a couple of points. One issue we have is we have seen real success, particularly in the last two years, in public transport numbers. Last year they went up 23% nationally and this year, 12%...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: In response to the three Deputies, we have mechanisms and encourage and the NTA delivers so-called "enhancements". Where we are finding that there may be a service that is under real pressure and a bus is full, we have the capability of funding and providing for additional buses. That is different to what I heard Deputies Tully and Smith talking about and I take the point. Are we are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: On Connecting Ireland and the Local Link services, this new massive expansion in rural public transport has primarily been delivered by Local Link services. Bus Éireann has had a role too but Local Link has been central. I am glad that hopefully now NTA has agreed contract terms with all the Local Link providers for the next phase of their contract. We have also commissioned a review...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Deputy for his kind words. I was only thinking of him yesterday. I happened to be reading up on all the various parliamentary questions and so on. I was reading an update on the Castlemartyr and Killeagh bypasses. Hopefully in the not-too-distant future we are going to get where we want, that detailed report as to how we would address the traffic congestion in those two...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I first should clarify that both the 30 and X30 bus services are part of Expressway, a commercial branch of Bus Éireann. Expressway services receive no State subvention, and decisions regarding service enhancements are based on commercial viability. The National Transport Authority is responsible for the licensing of public bus passenger services under the provisions of the Public...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 52, 74, 79, 88, 92, 110 and 111 together. In my earlier answer, I outlined the requirement to receive an exemption to carry munitions of war on civil aircraft in Irish sovereign territory or on Irish-registered aircraft wherever they are operating. I outlined the two categories the majority of granted exemptions fall into. I also outlined the difference...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: On a regular basis, we uphold the law by refusing applications for munitions to be either carried through Irish airspace or land in Irish airports. It is a relatively small number. Each year, on a routine basis, the Minister for Transport will assess any such application and, on a regular basis, say "No" under international law and under our rights as set out in the Chicago Convention. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding with regard to public transport. However, I am not involved in the day-to-day operation of public transport services. The statutory responsibility for securing the provision of public passenger transport services nationally rests with the National Transport Authority, NTA, including the management of the public...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As I am sure the Deputy will be aware, the National Transport Authority's Local Link rural transport programme is managed and administered in Cork by the Local Link offices in Bantry and Fermoy. I am pleased to confirm that I have secured Exchequer funding under budget 2025 for the roll-out of even more new and enhanced bus services throughout rural Ireland next year. This includes...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: To Deputy Tully, the uncertainty of such a bus, particularly going to the airport where people might be nervous, is unacceptable. They are told to go earlier but the airport times have lengthened in recent years. 12 o’clock That imposes a cost and burden on the consumer, so we need greater certainty. The same applies to the questions put by Deputies Smith and Wynne. Bus...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: This Government is firmly committed to improving public transport across the country and that commitment is demonstrated through the significant investment that has been made in both services and infrastructure in recent years. As the Deputy will be aware, the key objectives for Local Link include continuing to address rural social exclusion and the integration of Local Link with other...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Anti-social behaviour is a broad societal issue, to which public transport is unfortunately not immune, and it is those passengers and staff who regularly use and work within our public transport network who are most directly impacted by any safety or security incidents that may occur on the network. While my Department and the National Transport Authority (NTA) regularly engage with...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I think the Deputy will agree with me when I say that the Connecting Ireland Rural Mobility Plan has been a huge success, with over 130 new or enhanced services introduced since 2022. This means that over 190 towns and villages have been connected to the public transport network, and approximately 500,000 people have access to new and enhanced bus services. 42 new connections have been...